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June 2040

17 Sunday
  greenEleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [93] 2 Sam 12:7-10, 13; Ps 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11; Gal 2:16, 19-21; Luke 7:36-8:3 or 7:36-50.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:81st anniversary of the death of F. John Buskens (79) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:39th birthday of S. Eliezer Chitoshi CHONGO (born this day in 2001).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537At Venice, St. Ignatius and his Companions were ordained deacons. 1558. The First General Congregation is convened.
1537Ignatius and his companions received minor orders at the house of Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti in Venice, Italy.
1581Church of St. Mary's, Oxford, Commencement Day. The pamphlet of Edmund Campion, Ten Reasons appears and it is his call to debate. But he will be martyred in less than one year.
1673Marquette and Joliet are the first Europeans to see the upper Mississippi River. Marquette writes: "We entered the Mississippi with a joy I am unable to express." He names it the River of the Immaculate Conception. He saw it at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
1700A new, stricter law against the Jesuits is passed in Massachusetts.
1900The martyrdom at Wuyi, China, of Blessed Modeste Andlauer and Blessed Rémy Aroré, slain during the Boxer Rebellion.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2040

Dominical Letter  A g
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 5
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6753
Years since the confirmation of the Society 500
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  484
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 19
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 1 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    6 May